Reflections
Sunflowers: Pronouncing a Blessing
Sunflowers: Pronouncing a Blessing Read Psalm 113 “From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of...
Soul Songs: Psalm 118
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 118 Set Your Face Toward the Riot And on this path the gates are opening wide — Psalm 118 Read Psalm 118: 1,2 -19-29 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to you? What feelings, longings, hopes are evoked...
Soul Songs: Psalm 130
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 130 Tending the Grief "My whole being waits for you, my God, listening for your Presence.” -- Psalm 130:4 Read Psalm 130 What feelings, longings, hopes are evoked in you as you pray this Psalm? When life is hard and you are hurting,...
Soul Songs: Psalm 23
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 23 Hospitality "Anoint my head, and fill my cup to overflowing." - Psalm 23 Read Psalm 23 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to you? What feelings, longings, hopes are evoked in you as you pray this...
Pam & Tilley Day 1
Pam Harrison, a friend of the Prayer Bench, is spending the winter in Olhos da Agua, Portugal. She wonders how she will live in an area of the world that is the hub of coronavirus. "As of yesterday things sure changed!! The news and social media are so scary but the...
Soul Songs: Psalm 95
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 95 Holding in Care "God holds in care the earth we walk upon, from its deep caverns, to mountain summits which meet the sky." -Psalm 95 Read Psalm 95 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to you in days...
Soul Songs: Psalm 121
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 121 Present to Life as it is. “I walk into your wakefulness… And in the shadows … you preserve me from its evils.” - Psalm 121 Read Psalm 121 What parts of this Psalm speak to you? Inspire, resonate or call to you? What feelings,...
Soul Song: Psalm 32
LENT SOUL SONG VISUAL PRAYER Psalm 32 Speaking the Truth of the Heart. “How blessed are those who live before their God without the weight of guilt … I spoke …. Uncovering it all.” Ps. 32 Read Psalm 32 What parts of this Psalm speak to you?...
Inside Prayer
Inside Prayer “Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and went up the mountain to pray.” I was fortunate to visit the place where, by tradition, this story may have taken place, Mount Tabor in Galilee. We didn’t walk up the mountain. We drove. As we wound our...
“How Then Shall I Live” Free Email Retreat
Here is your free retreat: (click on retreat title to download and print) How Then Shall We Live What best supports our journey of becoming? What contemplative practices help us live the life we want to be living? What are some ways we move deeper into our heart and...
2020 Subscription Packages
Is this you? Seeking to deepen your life through spiritual practice rooted in Christian Wisdom? Yearning for invitations to solitude and silence, to see beauty all...
A Gentle Stirring of Life & Hope
A Gentle Stirring of Life and Hope I’m haunted by this image. Before you read more about it, take the time to explore the entire image with your eyes: Notice the shapes, the different figures and symbols.... See if there is any part of the image that asks for your...
Starlight Stories for Advent 2019
You’ll meet John’s childhood friend, Mary’s mother Anna, Joseph who is ready to flee, a shepherd who holds her post, and even a story from the Star herself. The stories are wonderful. Each one brings richness and depth to the human spiritual journey in the...
Voting Early
A Story about Voting By Cathy MacLean I have voted since I was five years old! Impossible you say. Here’s how it was. Uncle Eddy always took my Grandmother to vote even though she lived with us. The problem was that she was Conservative and our household...
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[Romans] EveryWhere & EveryWhen
"For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans...
Stroll Meditations
By Corina Bolo May 11, 2019 This morning I took my first Stroll of this season and it was along some used-to-be familiar streets. I am staying for a bit with my Mom in my childhood home and this morning's walk took me past the WayMarks of street signs that I knew...
Deciding to Stroll in the Rain
by Pam Harrison Today is going to mark a change of attitude in my way of walking. The weather has kept me from walking three days on this journey, I miss walking so much. I reflected on your words and enjoy the day, but something is missing. So I am going to “walk in...
Welcome to Stroll for Your Soul
Welcome to Stroll for Your Soul I'm Janice, host of the Prayer Bench, and one of your guide. I'll be Strolling in Riverview, New Brunswick in Canada. I'm delighted to be partnering on this series with Caroline Bindon from the Whangaparaoa Peninsula in Auckland, New...
